Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Not sure if this is a stupid question or not, but is it possible somehow or another to mount a mksysb image as a loopback device, or pull a volume from it and mount it? I've got a few files I need to retrieve from a mksysb. However, I don't really want to spend the time to reload it onto a box to get a few Kb worth of SSL certificates =]

thanks for any info.

Originally posted by: orphy

Just to get a few files out of the mksysb? Is there any reason
why you don't just

restore -Tvqf <mksysb> > /tmp/restore.out # get a list of the files
restore -xvqf <mksysb> ... # files starting with "./"

If the mksysb is on a tape, you'll have to use "-s4" & "/dev/rmt#.1".

Do this on a temp directory so if something is messed up, you don't
restore files everywhere to clean up.
Orphy

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Thanks. That's exactly what I needed. I didn't realize restore would also restore files from a mksysb.
-dave